Life at IQE

Why IQE?

IQE is the world leader in the development and production of compound semiconductor materials. With a global high-tech manufacturing presence, the company is positioned for exceptional growth. The market for compound semiconductors is at an inflection point. The superior performance of these materials is resulting in expanding applications, driven by the roll out of 5G and proliferation of connected devices.

With 30 years of experience in these advanced materials, unique IP and knowhow, an enviable market share, established supply chain relationships and having invested in significant relevant production capacity, IQE is uniquely placed to capitalise on this market growth in the coming years.

Here is where you will find out more about us, our vacancies, and what it’s like working at IQE. You’ll also get first-hand experience from our team on your potential career.

One of the most important aspects of our business will always be our people.

As a growing and evolving business living on the edge of change, to continue excelling our team needs to evolve. While we embrace this exciting journey together, we all have the same common purpose and shared goals to empower you along the way. To aid this, we have regular catch-ups to make sure you have everything you need to meet your individual goals. Working transparently also helps with ensuring your career aspirations are on track.

IQE's strength lies in the expertise and diversity of our workforce. Over the years we have been fortunate to retain leading industry experts by being a market leader and through successful talent acquisition. As a result, we recognise that our teamwork and collaboration is a powerful competitive advantage that keeps us at the cutting edge of technology and drives constant improvement throughout our organisation. This is supported by our culture of integrity, accountability, excellence, valuing people and teamwork.

Employee engagement is a priority at IQE and in 2021 we partnered with Best Companies in order to measure, assess and improve our workplace engagement. The ‘b-Heard’ survey allowed all of our global employees to confidentially respond to statements about their wellbeing, pay and benefits, personal growth, teams, IQE’s leadership and more, and we are pleased to announce we earned a ‘Ones to Watch’ grading in our first year. Ones to Watch is a special status awarded to organisations where workplace engagement shows promising signs for the future, requiring a Best Companies Index score of at least 600 and reflecting an organisation with 'good' levels of workplace engagement. We are excited to use our b-Heard insights to drive our engagement journey for the benefit of all our employees now and in the future.

Giving Something Back

IQE recognises we have the ability to make a positive contribution to the communities in which we live and work and we support a range of local activities and initiatives. We encourage this to be driven 'bottom-up" to ensure that our efforts are relevant to our employees and what is important to their local communities. Our people receive one day of paid employee volunteering leave entitlement per year as part of our efforts to support them to give something back to their communities.

IQE's Head of Global Supply Chain, David Bishop, and Head of Talent Acquisition, Anthony Gallagher, having a great time at Newport Cricket handing over our new IQE banner to the under `13's girls team in training

Your learning, development and career progression is important to us. You’ll be given the tools, resources and guidance to own your personal learning and development plan, with the support of your line manager and our Learning & Development team.

Our need to adapt rapidly to changing markets has never been greater, which is why learning and growing as an individual is such an important part of our culture. We love to learn - a happy, fulfilled and knowledgeable team is a winning team!

23 days annual leave plus an entitlement to UK bank holidays

Company pension scheme with an option to contribute up to 5% of salary, matched by IQE up to 10%

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with a variety of discounts and deals

Westfield Health Welfare Cashplan

Discretionary bonus scheme

Employee Long-term Incentive Plan (subject to qualifying period)

*Actual benefits may vary depending on the prevailing laws of an employee's jurisdiction

If that’s not enough to persuade you, feel free to get in touch with our Resourcing Team at TalentAcquisitionTeam@iqep.com, or any of our team for that matter. We’re a fully transparent company and we are here to answer all of your questions.

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